Meghan Murphy

Meghan Murphy is a writer and a journalist in Vancouver, B.C. She is the founder and editor of Feminist Current, Canada's most-read feminist blog, and is host and producer of the syndicated Feminist Current podcast. Meghan's writing has been published in New Statesman, The Globe and Mail, The Georgia Straight, Al Jazeera, Ms. Magazine, AlterNet, Herizons Magazine, The Tyee, Megaphone Magazine, Good, rabble.ca, xoJane, and Vice. Meghan is an evening editor at rabble.ca and writes the monthly progressive dating column, Left in Love. She completed her Masters degree in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.

Following in Bustle's footsteps, Vice has realized that human women with human lives exist and matter in terms of capital. The traditionally dude-centric company has announced they will be launching a "female-focused channel" (cue cries of cissexism), led by Shanon Kelley and ex-Jezebelian, Tracie Egan Morrissey, and featuring "sex writer," Mish Way.

I think we can all agree that, for the most part, celebrity feminism is pretty shallow. As a culture, we are overly preoccupied with the things that those possibly most-unqualified to comment on political movements have to say about political movements. But they are our idols and so we insist on asking... As a result, the responses we get tend to be terribly disappointing.

We've addressed the issue of male allies in the feminist movement again and again but, surprise! Men who've elected themselves leaders in the women's movement don't listen. They don't care to listen. Even when they are claiming to be on our side.

I loveThe New York Times' Modern Love column. The writing and stories are consistently wonderful. (Full disclosure: I submitted a piece to the column once a couple of years ago and was rejected, like more than 99 per cent of all submissions are...)

For some unknown reason, virulent anti-feminist, Cathy Young, continues to be published by otherwise seemingly legit publications. Most recently we saw her trot out an MRA-style list of "guideposts" suggesting ways feminism can "do better" in 2015 for TIME, which included a recommendation that we include men’s rights activists in our "tent" and implied that feminism was guilty of being sexist against men.

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Funny lady/shero, Rashida Jones, is promoting a documentary she produced on amateur porn called Hot Girls Wanted and simultaneously pissing off the sex-positive delusionals by stating the obvious about the industry: "It's performative. It's fulfilling a male fantasy."

The BBC reports that "Friday's edition of The Sun was the last that would carry images of topless women."

The No More Page Three campaign, founded by writer and actor Lucy Anne Holmes, has been going strong since 2012, lobbying the current editor of The Sun, David Dinsmore to remove the completely outdated, embarrassing, sexist, and unnecessary "Page Three," which featured photos of topless models. The change.org petition garnered over 217,000 signatures. It reads, simply: